Tristan Olson
tristanolson.bsky.social
Tristan Olson
@tristanolson.bsky.social
170 followers 34 following 710 posts
Author and occasional poster of funny things. www.tristanolsonbooks.com
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Reposted by Tristan Olson
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Reposted by Tristan Olson
If the dead don't want to be spoken of poorly then they should have been better people in life.
Reposted by Tristan Olson
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
Reposted by Tristan Olson
LET’S GO, NEW YORK CITY!
VOTE for the City you deserve.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
#Revolution
Reposted by Tristan Olson
Let's hope this is the start of a trend.
Reposted by Tristan Olson
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Reposted by Tristan Olson
If you see a lot of political memes that have an out-of-place sepia filter, it's because the Studio Ghibli filter OpenAI added to ChatGPT was too popular and polluted their database, and will force a "nostalgic Ghibli sepia filter" onto images without asking. The recent White House Halo pic is one.
A Japanese organization representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Toei Animation and more has demanded OpenAI to halt unauthorized use of their IP
Reposted by Tristan Olson
ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM

*That’s* the headline.

(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
Reposted by Tristan Olson
Some of the very best and most important political journalism of late has come from Lex and the team at Teen Vogue. Follow them all wherever they go.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
Reposted by Tristan Olson
1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters

2. Don't get distracted from point one

3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage

4. Don't be old as fuck.

Go forth and do likewise
Reposted by Tristan Olson
New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇

lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
Inside LAPD's nearly $400M settlement crisis that's bankrupting LA
Taxpayers are covering civil rights violations and officer misconduct while basic city services face cuts—and a new audit could reveal whether LAPD is doing anything to stop the pattern.
lapublicpress.org
Reposted by Tristan Olson
Yet the media is covering the Trump Shutdown as if it's a huge political problem for *Democrats* — ironically an attempt to pressure Dems into helping Trump staunch the bleeding of his own popularity by rescuing him from his own shutdown.
Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
s3.documentcloud.org
Reposted by Tristan Olson
One thing that I think we need to talk about around shame is that shaming is the lowest stakes and most acceptable option for handling this kind of behavior, and if you're going to ignore shame you're really not going to like the other options for how societies handle this stuff.
Reposted by Tristan Olson
"Gary? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Dark Gary. That was my name.

I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."
Reposted by Tristan Olson
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
Reposted by Tristan Olson
“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business
Reposted by Tristan Olson
listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public
Reposted by Tristan Olson
ridiculous. you show some respect to grand negus zek
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
Reposted by Tristan Olson
I'm three degrees of separation from Trump himself, so if I were to become a drug dealer, the Pentagon would have the opportunity to do the funniest thing
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Reposted by Tristan Olson
I've seen a lot of people saying "it's about brand visibility" or "Fortnite collabs with everyone."

As a business owner, that's bullshit. Literally everything you publicize and take money from is a moral decision. I've walked away from ad deals because I didn't approve of the company offering them.
Reposted by Tristan Olson
When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
Reposted by Tristan Olson
LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
Reposted by Tristan Olson
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball